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Originally posted by BetaRose
A lot of them are holding out for a perfectly healthy newborn boy or girl of the same ethinic background. There are many wonderful people who look past a disablility, different race, or age and adopt children into loving homes, but not nearly enough of those people. So children sit in the system getting older, and not getting adopted, because they didn't mesh into someones mental picture of the perfect family.
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Exactly. If any of you are really interested in adoption, check out
The Kid by Dan Savage, it's all about how he and his boyfriend went through the process of adopting a child. Bascially, they went into the process as the only ones in their group who weren't obsessed with having the Perfect White Male Baby--and they were the first ones picked to adopt. They were selected by a "gutter punk" who hadn't received prenatal care until her second trimester--a concept which scared most of the suburban white couples who demanded a birth mother who was college educated, extremely healthy, and who had prenatal care from the moment she found out she was pregnant. I mean, how rare is that? So, a lot of people are sadly disappointed due to super-high expectations in the adoption world.
As for myself, I don't know. I guess it all depends on my situation when it's baby time.